If you don’t speak face-to-face with Carolina Panthers defensive end Efe Obada, there’s one thing you’d never know about him.
But there are plenty of ways to get to know Obada without talking to him directly.
Read any news article about him, and you’ll learn that Obada, 26, is the first player from the NFL’s International Pathway Program to make a 53-man roster.
Watch any television clip, and it’ll detail Obada’s heartbreaking journey to the NFL: Born in Nigeria, then being trafficked to London with his sister when he was 10, only to be abandoned and left homeless from there.